karthika

karthika presents as golden and violet in equal measure, with twin-star shadows creating permanent twilight bands across the equator, with a solitary moon tracing a low, steady orbit. Surface temperatures range from 50 to 400°C under dual stellar irradiation at 1.1 atm, with alternating heating cycles as the two stars rise and set. At 6,577 km across, the surface material is primarily a surface chemistry transformed by competing radiation environments. A world caught between two stars experiences a continuous gravitational argument. That karthika exists at all suggests it found — or was locked into — a stable compromise.